GodCams

The hope of the second coming of Christ is nothing short of perennial -- and in a fit of what TS Eliot would call misplaced concreteness, there's even a webcam pointing at the (currently bricked in) Golden Gate in Jerusalem where it is assumed he will appear...

It is not every day, however, that the activities of two persons of the godhead can be sought on camera: but today, being a day on which the cardinals meet in Conclave to seek the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in electing a new pope, is one of them. CNN's camera focusing on the chimney on the Sistine Chapel roof therefore joins the "MessiahCam" as the world awaits the arrival of a new pope -- with the cardinal's hymn "Veni Creator Spiritus" echoing the "maranatha!" of those hoping for Christ's "soon coming".